Cardinal Marc Ouellet

Cardinal Marc Ouellet Defends Priestly Celibacy Ahead of Pan-Amazon Synod

10/14/2019 at 6:00 PM By Kevin Edward White
Pan-Amazon Synod Watch, October 14, 2019 The prefect for the Congregation for Bishops, who wrote the new book, Friends of the Bridegroom: For a Renewed Vision of Priestly Celibacy, said celibacy will be understood if the priest has a better sense of his own priesthood. Cardinal Marc Ouellet,... read more

Vatican officials offer guidance for German Church gathering

09/13/2019 at 10:06 AM By Mary Anne Hackett
Cindy Wooden, Sep 13, 2019, CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE Vatican officials offer guidance for German Church gathering Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich and Freising, president of the German bishops’ conference, speaks to the press at the beginning of the German bishops’ fall assembly in Fulda,... read more

Martel: Pope Knew About McCarrick

02/19/2019 at 9:52 AM By Mary Anne Hackett
Gay author confirms Abp. Viganò's testimony by Stephen Wynne  •  ChurchMilitant.com  •  February 18, 2019    VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - A French gay activist is backing up Abp. Carlo Maria Viganò's claims that Pope Francis knew about... read more

Communications Centralization and Leaks at the Vatican

01/05/2019 at 10:55 AM By Mary Anne Hackett
COMMENTARY: The leaked letters of Cardinal Ouellet to Cardinal DiNardo suggest that a new era in Vatican media may be dawning, and it’s significant. By Father Raymond J. de Souza, Jan. 4, 2019 The year opened with a major shake-up in Vatican media — and another communications development... read more

The People Who Walked in Darkness

10/26/2018 at 3:18 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Scott P. Richert, October 24, 2018 In recent decades, the whistleblower has occupied a prominent yet uncertain place in American culture. Sometimes, he is greeted as a hero, and his story becomes the stuff of legend, recounted in books and Dateline NBC episodes and blockbuster Hollywood... read more

Archbishop Viganò Responds to Cardinal Ouellet’s Letter With New Testimony

10/22/2018 at 1:24 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
The full text of the former nuncio's testimony in which he refutes much of Cardinal Ouellet's letter of Oct. 7. Edward Pentin Blog, Oct. 19, 2018 Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò issued a third testimony today, the feast of the North American Martyrs, which we publish in full below, with a link... read more

Ouellet Tried to Rebut, but Actually Confirmed Viganò

10/20/2018 at 3:58 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Fr. Gerald E. Murray, October 20, 2018 Cardinal Marc Ouellet published an Open Letter [1] to Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò on October 7th in response to Viganò’s first [2] and second [3] testimonies – in particular to his claim that Cardinal McCarrick had been sanctioned by Pope... read more

Viganò’s Third Testimony Responds to Ouellet, Appeals to Judgment Before God

10/19/2018 at 9:19 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Steve Skojec, October 19, 2018 It is striking the way in which Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has become, in many ways, the kind of hero the Church is so desperately looking for. Today, on the occasion of the Feast of the North American Martyrs — Jesuits who, unlike many of the modern-day... read more

For their sake and for ours…

10/17/2018 at 4:27 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Stephen P. White, October 11, 2018 It is synod season, again, and the successors of the apostles gather in Rome at the behest of Peter. The synod is intended to be a moment of listening, discernment, and dialogue – a time of reflection upon the needs and challenges facing young people. It... read more

Cdl. Ouellet admits he knew of McCarrick’s ‘restrictions’. Is he guilty of covering for an abuser?

10/17/2018 at 3:04 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
Maicke Hixson Blog October 15, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – As we have seen in these last years, the Vatican does not appear to be too apt at working in the field of public affairs. Somehow, one is always able to see through its attempts at trying to skew a piece of information. At times – as... read more

Cardinal Ouellet’s Response to Archbishop Viganò Lacks Credibility

10/16/2018 at 12:03 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By John M. McCarthy, October 16, 2018 In a letter dated October 7th, Cardinal Marc Ouellet penned an open reply to Archbishop Viganò’s most recent appeal to Ouellet to “bear witness to the truth” concerning the alleged sanctions placed on Cardinal McCarrick by Benedict XVI and... read more